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Re: understanding/troubleshooting gnokii
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Roberto Verzola |
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Re: understanding/troubleshooting gnokii |
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Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:58:53 +0800 |
Sorry, I meant that it has been more than a year I've been using
gnokii with the particular hardware/software setup.
It's been more than 3 years I've been using gnokii successfully on
other hardware/software setups.
Roberto
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:18:48 +0800 Roberto Verzola
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I've been using gnokii 0.6.31 for more than a year with no problem
> (except for the delete command, so I still manually delete msgs from
> the cellphone). It has worked with both Nokia models c1-01 and c2-01.
>
> The system (from the About option) is:
> GTK+ 2.24.20 / GLib 2.38.1
> Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8)
> Operating System: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic (i686)
>
> I use Kubuntu, and its own About says it uses
> KDE Platform Version 4.11.5
>
> The hardware is a Lenovo S100C netbook, with built-in bluetooth.
>
> As I said, I've used this setup, with a python program I wrote and
> have been using over more than 3 yrs, with little problem.
>
> A month ago, I got an error and could not connect with my
> phones (I use 2 c1-01 and 1 c2-01 nokia models). This was the error I
> was getting:
>
> Can't connect: Operation now in progress
> Couldn't open PHONET device: Operation now in progress
> Telephone interface init failed: Command failed.
> Quitting.
> Command failed
>
>
> After some double-checking, I suspected that the internal bluetooth
> hardware had been getting flaky and had now failed completely.
>
> So I bought a USB bluetooth dongle, and after some tweaking, the
> system worked again.
>
> But last week, I somehow lost the dongle. So I bought three more
> dongles (same brand).
>
> But it doesn't work anymore and I keep getting the error message
> above.
>
> I used to be able to use my cellphones to discover and pair with the
> netbook, give a passcode, and establish a connection. I can't now.
> There is no response from the netbook.
>
> I used to be able to use the netbook to browse and download files from
> the cellphones. Now the netbook can't exchange data with the phones.
>
> The terminal command hcitool dev can see both the internal bluetooth
> hardware and external dongles. The commend hcitool scan hangs if I
> remove all dongles (and use only the internal bluetooth hardware), but
> with an external dongle, it can discover the cellphones (name and
> bluetooth addr) of the cellphones around it. But it cannot connect to
> them. And gnokii gives the error above.
>
> Any suggestion or help would be appreciated.
>
> Roberto Verzola
>
> PS. I use the system to keep in touch with several thousand farmers
> for distance education and training. So they're offline now, and I'm
> desperate for a solution. I will probably buy another computer next.
>
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> Can't connect: Operation now in progress
> Couldn't open PHONET device: Operation now in progress
> Telephone interface init failed: Command failed.
> Quitting.
> Command failed
>
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